WOW (Writers on Writing) Project

Joyce Carol Oates, THE (OTHER) YOU

Originally published on March 20, 2021

Zibby interviewed literary legend Joyce Carol Oates as part of Temple
Emanu-El Streicker Center’s ‘Women on the Move’ series. Their recorded
conversation, released here as a podcast, touches on Oates’s two newest
releases, American Melancholy and The (Other) You, as well as how she has
approached writing during the pandemic.
— Read on zibbyowens.com/transcript/joyce-carol-oates-the-other-you

Noonie Fortin Promotes Her Website

Noonie Fortin, the author of Mom Wears Combat Boots, The Sarge’s Thoughts, and Martha Raye has a website that tributes the contributions of Martha Raye in her military tours! https://m.facebook.com/MarthaRayeScrapbook/videos/a-salute-to-col-maggie/10150447331484953/. In this video key film is shared with an interview by Noonie Fortin about Martha Raye’s commitment to the troops on tour. She states that everyone thought she was a nurse because she stayed and comforted the troops by playing cards and sitting with individuals during parts of encampment that were dangerous and imperilous.

Billy Collins with NPR

Billy Collins shares his review of poetry never published in “The Writer’s Best Friend” with the question, “How often do you write poems that are never published or seen publicly?” from December 2016 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QuS36q9wrVU

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